Stop the War on Drugs
Scott Gottlieb | Wall Street Journal
December 17, 2007

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In December 2005, Eli Lilly & Co. pled guilty to a criminal indictment from the Bush Justice Department and paid $36 million in fines and "disgorgement" of its ill-gotten gains. The company's crime was mounting a concerted effort to inform doctors that, according to leading medical authorities, the firm's estrogen-modulating drug Evista substantially reduced the risk of invasive breast cancer in postmenopausal women.

Scott Gottlieb, M.D., is a resident fellow at AEI.

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